Facts in mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it / [Chauncy Hare Townshend].

  • Townshend, Chauncy Hare, 1798-1868.
Date:
[1840]
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Credit: Facts in mesmerism, with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it / [Chauncy Hare Townshend]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    montre, et il renouvela cette epreuve avec le meme succes, lorsque j'en eus a dessein derange les aiguilles. Ainsi je ne doute pas E. A- ■ voyait a la fois par toutes les parties de la tete ; il se levait de son siege, courait avec vitesse, evitant tres- bien les obstacles, et atteignant le but qu'il se proposait. En finissant cette courte relation, je ne veux pas omettre Tun des faits de vision qui me frappa le plus vivement chez ce somnambule. Sur la table a cote de laquelle il etait assis, il y avait une multitude de verres diversement colories; E en saisit un, le porte a la partie superieure du front en faisant le geste d'une personne qui regarde avec un lorgnon, et dit aussitot, Je vois tout bleu. C'e'tait en effet un verre de cette couleur dont il faisait usage. FoiSSAC. Paris, le 18 Mars, 1839. repeated this proof with the same success when I had intentionally- altered the hands. I have consequently no doubt that E. A saw at once with all parts of his head : he rose from his seat, ran quickly, avoiding obstacles very well, and reached the place he intended. In concluding this short account, T cannot omit one of the facts of vision which struck me most forcibly in this sleepwaker. On the table, by the side of which he was sitting, there were a number of dif- ferent coloured glasses; E took one, raised it to the upper part of his forehead, imitating the action of a person looking with an eyeglass, and immediately said, I see all blue. It was in fact a glass of that colour that he had taken up. FOISSAC. Paris, 18th March, 1839. B B